Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it." The first in the series of Christmas stories by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic, first published in 1843. The book recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a selfish, old and miserly man. As the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come take Scrooge on respective journeys, will he learn the true meaning of the season? Filled with compassion and joy, A Christmas Carol captures the spirit of the age and is one of the best-known Yuletide tales, with its set of endearing larger-than-life characters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MAPLE PRESS PVT LTD
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 145g
• ISBN-13: 9789380816746
• ISBN-10: 938081674X
• Artikelnr.: 64385363

Autorenporträt

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.